I was anxious. The first day of kindergarten loomed. My parents had decided to send me to a Spanish immersion school in Rochester, New York. Weirder still, they planned to send me to school in a taxi! I did not want to go to kindergarten. I did not want to […]

I heard it happening, could predict the series of events with perfect prescient parental precision. A happy game on the trampoline between classes, the merry sounds of mirth floating to my half focused ears. I thought it would end in tears about the same time it truly did end in […]